Sentence examples for Empirical acquaintance from inspiring English sources
At its most responsible and secure, descriptive knowledge is either inferred from, or rationally controlled by, empirical acquaintance at its root.
According to this 'object view', perception is an acquaintance with mind-independent empirical things whose basic natures and perceptible qualities constitute what it is like to be presented with them in this way.
rests upon an impressive empirical foundation enriched by the authors' extensive acquaintance with business historiography.
BonJour, once one of the leading coherence theorists of empirical justification, has recently moved to a version of the acquaintance theory of justification.
However, this methodology has not been widely used within clinical medicine due to a lack of familiarity with highly quantitative methods and a greater acquaintance with statistical modeling approaches based on inference and empirical data analysis.
McGrew endorses classical foundationalism, taking all our empirical knowledge to rest on a foundation of knowledge that is had by acquaintance or direct awareness, and in particular on demonstrative beliefs.
While Chalmers and Gertler seem somewhat sympathetic to classical foundationalism, they have been concerned primarily to defend the claim that at least some introspective beliefs or beliefs regarding one's own phenomenal states constitute the most secure sort of empirical, noninferential knowledge or justified belief, and that these beliefs owe their privileged epistemic status to acquaintance.
In the case of the spatiotemporal universe which empirical experience is ambitious to explore, most knowledge is (to employ Bertrand Russell's useful distinction) knowledge by description, not acquaintance.
Māori are not the only people who have networks of family, friends, and acquaintances that are centred in one location; however, the case of Māori is particularly amenable to empirical analysis because we can measure these networks using iwi affiliations.
